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Nathan Seidle: open source, open mind, open for business

As an undergraduate electrical-engineering student in 2003, Nathan Seidle founded SparkFun Inc, an online retail store that describes itself as selling “the bits and pieces to make electronics projects possible.” Since then, the company has expanded to more than 450 original products, which its growing and varied customer base of EEs, hobbyists, artists, students,... More

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Google, your favorite hardware company

It’s official. Google today announced that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of Motorola Mobility Inc (MMI) for $40 a share. Google’s mission statement from the outset was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” One could say it is continuing down that path with this mobile computing-focused... More

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AMD unveils Trinity based embedded processors

A week after formally launching Trinity, AMD has announced a family of embedded processors based on the integrated x86 and graphics chip. As EE Times ‘ Rick Merritt reports: The AMD Embedded R-Series includes as many as eight chips that merge x86 and graphics cores and two related I/O controllers. Like the Trinity parts, the R-Series sports members with up to four of AMD’s... More

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5 Engineers: What’s the most impressive, interesting, or intriguing DIY project you’ve ever done?

In our most recent 5 Engineers post — part of this blog and our Fun Friday newsletter , where we toss out a question and invite our audience to respond with their wittiest answers — we asked: What’s your favorite geek book? Thanks to the many great responses, my Amazon Wish List is set for months, maybe even through the holidays. Visit this page to share your own... More

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Cornell Cup: Embedding design into young engineers' minds

In his breakfast keynote presentation opening the inaugural Cornell Cup USA student embedded design competition, presented by Intel, Bikas Narain, Intel, director of platform and software validation, said, “The future is so bright, it’s mind boggling.” Narain was speaking of two things: First, the growth of the embedded systems market, which by 2015 is expected to mass... More